Anchor hoist



Ma'mh 6, 192s.

l. N. STENSLAND ANCHOR 'HCI ST Filed March 5, 1926 -/77 5 #Tof/Vir Patented Mar. '1928.

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Application liiednarhfs, 1.926.` serial no.Y 92,651.

This invention relates generally to the fishing industry, and particularly to the'han.- dling of anchors such as are used with floating, traps in the salmon fishing industry and f in places where unusual lengths. of .wire cable must. be handled. The iirst object oi'this invention is to `provide an exceedingly simple and" eiiicient cable-handling hoist whereby lfishing ytrap anchors kmay belowered o r hauledin with a minimum amount of laborandA the expenditure. oi only a fraction` of the time ordinarily required in such operations.V j l The second object is to enable the'f'trap builder to take. cable directly fromfits 'spool and after ,attachingl it. tothe anchor. pay it out asfast Vand as far as desiredwithout danger of kin-king the' line,g or. the.4 necessity of. freolnentv cutting of the line with the vforced insertionv of shackles, 'f which operations are caused whenever the line first wound onV the drumof a donkey engine and then coiled on the. deck of a scow without the loweringof the anchor, in which' event each coil as it goes overboard. causes a ltvv'st tobe put into the line. rThese twists ultimately cause kinks in the line 'which break under the severe stresses to.V which such lines. are subjected.A 'i

Thel thirdobject is to enable the fisherman to place his trapsy in the most ativanv tageous position, which is in roughwater f where. the current is-swiftandwater deep,

whichA conditions are especial-ly Vfavorable to trapgishin'g forsalmon. 1 The fourth ob'ectmis to enable the fisherman to placehis traps o n the best location regardless ofthekind of bottom or depth ofwater.

rEhe th object isv torender possible the use of cheap yconcrete anchors, the use.. of which: has been abandoned. owing t0 the large amount of breakage caused by theranchors striking the bottom, which breakage is eliminated bymy device, due to the fact. that the anchor can be. lowered to the bottom ofthe lishing` ground as gently as desired... f v

. These, and other ob'ects, will become morev apparent fromk the specification following as illustra-tedinthe accompanying drawing, in which: VFigure 'l is a side elevationof. the apparatus with a portion broken away inY order that it might be shown at a'relatively large. scale. Figure 2 is a plan of Figure 1 sho-wing por Awhen casting the anchor.

tions of the scow deck and such elements of th'eldevice as are required to. explain its-op'-y eration.` y l Similar numbers of reference referto the same partsthroughout the views.

In' order to better V'explain the device and stated that it'sfield` of use lies over such trap lshin grounds whose bottoms are so deep or roc 'ry as to' render the driving` of piling impractical. f

the reasons for its construction, it is first Referring infdetailV to the drawing, the i thespoolin-g apparatus, the hoist 'itself and the prime mover,l whichordina-rily consists of.' a. twodrum donkey .engine with two power- The derrickv ior'fliitin the; anchor out "ofV derricl'z` and` the otherdrum being used for' slewlng the derrick boom.y 1

'Spoolz'fngapp'aratwnv Y This consists ofthel ordinary wooden spool 1l on which wire rope is'ordinarily'sold' and device 'itself ordinarily mounted on a scow l0 and conslsts lof threeV elements, namely which is mounted between the removable spool 11 is provided at feach `end' with `a metal'bushing 14, one of which receives the dead shaft 15in .the'standard' 12;'and the `other can bey secured :to a live shaftl'which speed of.' thehoist, andalso acts as a brake.'

for the spool' when rpayingf-.out vthe line and The frame I2, ispreierably mounted on vthe tracks 20 to facilitate the removal ofthe spool with the aid of a power;` sling on the track',"rv

The hoist itself includes the sidekframei 2l and"22` across which are mounted four stationary shafts 23' on whose proiectin v endsaresuitably journaled kthe groove `'standard 12"andthe'ixedstandardl.. The f drums 24 whose grooves 25 are yadaptelt() i handle the anchorline 26,.' tieplate is placed across the ends of the shafts 23 to support the shaft ends. Each drum 24 has secured thereto a gear V28, and midway between the tour gears 28 and meshing with all of same, is a pinion 29 on theshaft 30, to 'l isattached to the line 26 in the usual manner.

Prime mover.

V'Power is supplied to the'device ironia donkey engine which isv shown only in part and across whose side frames 38 is mounted the crank shaft 39 whose pinion 40 drives y the gear4l Aon the shaft 42, which also'jour nais across the ra'umes 38.

Av crank" 43 is yshown in place on the shaft 39; On the shaft 42 are secured the sprocket pinions 44'I and 45,` the former of which drives the sprocket wheel 35 through the chain 46 and the llatter oi which drives the sprocket wheel'18 through the chain'47.

Such details asv the donkey boiler, engine cylinders'and frame, brake levers and clutch operating vmechanism are purposely omittedl in order to simplify the drawing.' It isto be understood that the entire drawing is somewhat diagrammatic and is intend-ed to illustrate only the principles rather than the exact details of construction as are employed when actually building the device. AMoreover, Ythe employment" of clutches and brakes above' described is optional, as l'is their exact location, Awhether it is close to the element being controlled or Whether it Jforms a part of the'prime mover is of little importance and does not enter into the in vention. In order to make the Irope lead on tothe drums from the spools a pair ofy fair-leading sheaves 48 and v49y are provided on the scow'.l These are placed in an oiltank 50 in which crude oil may be placedwhenever it is desired to runthe cable on to the spool for storage purposes; crude oil7 of course, tending to prevent deterioration of the line. When paying the line outV no oil Yis kept inthe tank 50, as it would not be necessary toy oil the line before putting it into Ythe water.

The operation of the device is as follows: Assume that a trap is to be set in one thousand feet vof water, which is common practice, andthe anchor lines to be employed must be not less than three orfour thousand .feet in length preferably of one andone-half inch plow steel cable to which is attached the diamond fluke anchor weighing in thek neighborhood. of twelve tons. lIt is evident that the problem ofl lowering theY anchor without wreckingV same on a rocky bottoni is no slight one.

With my device arspooliful of line is-placed between the trames l2 and 13 and the end of the cable is wound around the Yfour drums' 247 one turn of the cable occupying one "set of grooves 25' "The anchor 37 is now. attached tothe end of the line and lowered over thefside oit lthe scow with the line run-` ning over thesheave 36.l l n To pay out the line the operator slips'the clutch 32, and if it seems necessary; adds to f the lretarding'action by' applying the brakeA 32A. This retarding action can be secured wholly orin part through theengineitself,V

asis well understood.` Y

The friction drive for the spool 11 must enable the spool to pay out the line as rapidly as vit is beingy handled 'by the drums,"

or to take it in as rapidly as its hauled in by the drumsonly a slight'amountof tension- Y being carried on theline between the spool and thedruvms. The slippage on the spooldrivingv clutch :will take, carev ofthe changing diameter, oi' they spool.v Insomel cases it may be desired to'omitA the `spoolingappara- Que tus altogether, as-.when handling soft lines or when the line is to be lcoiledyby hand. Although', oilcourse,l the greatest advantage lies'rin the employment o Va spool which eliminates all kinks from the line.,y

lt must -be'i borne in Vmindzthat floating fish traps require from lthree to seven anchors each." These must be cast whenever p the trap. is set at the startvofthe fishing season and hauled in` atthecloseV of" the season when the trap is anchored in smoother'water, in order to preventvsame'ffrom being unnecessarily f injured between "fishing During operations, the nets themselves are y'pulled to vand fro with tide and current with drum Vwhose capacity is normally `around five.Y hundred feet; and then cuttingthe line and coiling `it on of the donkey drum onto the scow deck, 'and repeating this operation,

with more line `frein the spool and' subsequently joining the various lengths by'means f of shackles, atterwhich the various coils are carriedinto the water by the weight of thel the spool on vvhich'it is stored vWithout, the

introduction of VVshackles,l which tendy to anchor being cast, lV prefer not tocut theV "line at all but `to pay 1t out directly from cable storage spool rotatably mounted on f the opposite end of said scow ;1 an enginefor driving said spool and winding device; friction drives between said engine and storage and winding drums; and brake means on said winding drum.

2. An anchor hoist having, in combination, a scow; awinding device. mounted on one end of said scow comprising four geardriven grooved drums having one interme diate drive gear for driving all of said drumsfin the same direction at the same speed; a cable storage spool. rotatably mounted on the'opposite end of said scow; an engine for driving said spool and Winding device; friction drives between said engine and storage and winding drums; brake means on said winding drum; and fairleading sheaves between said storage and winding drums having an oil reservoir formed around same through which the cable is made to pass while being spooled on said Vstorage drum.

Y IVER N. STENSLAND. 

